A Countermeasure For Flooding Attack In Mobile Wimax Networks
M. Deva Priya, Pradeep Kumar · International Journal on Computational Science & Applications · 2014
Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) is a new communication technology that conduits the fissure between fixed and mobile access and offers the same Quality of Service (QoS) to both types of users. Generally, WiMAX is more vulnerable to the inside and outside attacks due to the absence of any clear line of defense. The Mobile Subscriber Stations (MSSs) selected to transfer the packets to the Base Station (BS) are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks like flooding. Recent research has discovered that DoS attacks can easily be launched by injecting malevolent management frames into the WiMAX network based on the Privacy and Key ManagementReSPonse (PKM-RSP) and Automatic Repeat ReQuest (ARQ)-Reset messages. In this paper, an algorithm is proposed to mitigate the flooding attacks and enhance the security level in the network.